The Descendants of Merlin by Mellody Stout EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Author: Mellody Stout
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London, 1995
Hanna wasted precious moments scrubbing her hands in the kitchen sink
until the water ran clear. But even the blistering heat could not burn away
what she had done. Five monsters. No–men. They had faces, names,
families, and she had ended their lives without a second thought. Playing
God had turned her into someone she no longer recognized.
I have to get out before they come for me. Hanna’s feet drove her toward
the bedroom, where she emptied every drawer into an old suitcase, hardly
knowing what she touched before it left her hands.
Several cracked ribs screamed in protest with every breath, and her pulse
beat painfully against the bruise on her temple as she ran for the front door.
There was just enough time to grab a small black book from the dining
table, and stuff it into the bottom of her bag, before a quiet knock froze her
where she stood.
Hands shaking, she tried to summon her fire, but it would not come. She
was exhausted, weak, and out of magic. All that stood between her and
death was a dusty suitcase and the smell of sulfur.
But it was not the Queen’s Guard who entered her apartment. It was their
captain—her captain—Bayard, hood pulled up over his head, and very
much alone. His bulky frame and age-lined face held none of their familiar
warmth.
Hanna tensed, determined to survive whatever killing blow he intended to
deal, but the responding pain in her muscles assured her there would be no
fight. Their eyes locked, for seconds or hours she could not say, before her
words tumbled from her lips.
“Make it count.”
Bayard’s only reply was to drop his crimson cloak, wet from the rain. He
tossed it over the back of a lone chair and slumped into it. The creaking of
wood pierced the silence, a too-casual sound to punctuate her final
moments. She could only watch him, trapped like a mouse between the
claws of a hungry cat.
“I’m not here to kill you, if that’s what you’re waiting for.” Bayard
propped his feet up on the table, but Hanna dared not move. He was the sort
of man that always had a purpose and, at the moment, she had to assume it
was to punish her.
“The price of treason is death,” she replied.
“Is that what we’re calling it?” Bayard chewed at a hangnail.
“I defied a direct order from the queen.” The order to not intervene
which, if she had obeyed, would have saved several lives. Six, to be exact.
“So I gathered.” Bayard dropped his hands, lacing his fingers together in
his lap. “In a spectacular blaze of fire, even. Gideon swore he could see the
smoke from here.”
The bloody images and stench of burning flesh clawed their way back
out, and Hanna cringed. If Gideon knew what she had done, that meant the
rest of the Guard did as well. There would be no hope of covering it up, and
the queen would be demanding her head for insubordination. She couldn’t
manage a reply.
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